Indigo Weather Conditions Plugin Preview is available…

What is Indigo Weather Conditions? Quite Simply, it\’s a built-in Weather  tool for Indigo.  While it is similar to the NOAA script, it doesn\’t simply populate the variables in Indigo.  It is designed for Indigo v5, and it does so much more… First, it has an honest to goodness, User Interface.  Second, it will also […]

Congratulations to Perceptive Automation! (Indigo Touch 1.7 release)

Congratulations to Perceptive Automation on the Indigo Touch 1.7 release. From the Release Notes: We are excited to announce that Indigo Touch 1.7 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. New features include: Support for iOS 4 multitasking — commands will finish executing and images will continue to load even […]

Automatic Sprinkler System Scheduling Part 1

What is the best practices in Water Sprinkler\’s, and scheduling their watering patterns? What is a Can test? or a Stick test? \’Can test\’ is kind of an industry standard way of measuring the amount of water being applied to an area of lawn for a given amount of time [hourly water rate]. It involves […]

Household hints – Cleaner dishes

Here\’s a hint for anyone that has a dishwasher, put White Distilled Vingear in the liquid dispenser, in addition to any dish washer powder that you use…  It will help sanitize and seems to work as good as some of the off the shelf products that we have tried.

Insteon devices are internally fused? (No, they are not!)

Myth: I have found that most, and possibly all*, Insteon \”Bricks\” are fused internally. The Truth: This is not true. In fact, most INSTEON products are not internally fused. The ApplianceLinc, PowerLinc Modems, and PowerLinc Controllers contain no fuses. There are also no designed-in fusible links within the components or circuit board(s).  (Fusible links, means […]